Elyra Release
Requesting publish access
In order to perform a release, one will need to have publish access to
PyPI
npm
elyra
org on Docker Hubelyra
org on quay.io
Configuring your environment
Publishing a release requires proper access to the external repositories as well as your development environment pre-configured to publish to these repositories without prompting for password:
Configuring your environment to publish to PyPI
PyPI package managers will look for repository credentials in a ~/.pypirc
file. The example file below could
be used as a template for configuring your environment:
[distutils] # this tells distutils what package indexes you can push to
index-servers =
pypi
[pypi]
repository: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
username: <USERNAME>
password: <PASSWORD>
We use twine for uploading packages to PyPI, and another option to setup your credentials is to use twine’s keyring support.
Configuring your environment to publish to npm.js
When publishing npm packages, user credentials are configured in the ~/.npmrc
file, where your e-mail and access token
should be available:
email=<USER EMAIL>
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=<AUTH TOKEN>
Follow these steps to create your authorization token.
Configuring signing keys
During publishing, the packages will be signed and that will require you to have support for pgp and a valid signing key
Note: Although this is probably not recommended, the release script expects a signing key that would work without prompting the user for a passphrase.
Before you begin
Elyra depends on a few different packages that are under the control of the Elyra community and used mostly to abstract integration with other runtimes and components.
Currently, these packages are:
Before you begin creating a new Elyra release, verify if there is a need to release any of these packages, and if necessary, update Elyra to use the new release.
Elyra supports both podman
(OCI) and docker
as container runtimes to build our container images. docker
is
configured as the default container runtime. If using podman
, ensure the following environmental variables are set prior to running the release script:
CONTAINER_EXEC=podman
CONTAINER_OUTPUT_OPTION="--format docker"
Elyra release process overview
Building an Elyra release consists of the following steps:
Updating the changelog.md with the list of changes added to the release
Building the Elyra python package.
Building Elyra JupyterLab extensions as npm packages.
Generate and build the modified packages to enable single-extension deployment.
Build and publish multiple docker images
Update the release [notes] on GitHub
Most of the steps required to prepare and publish a release have been automated through the create-release.sh
script,
which exposes three goals:
The
prepare-changelog
goal traverse the recent commits to update the changelog.md for a given release.
create release prepare-changelog --version 2.3.0
The
prepare
goal create the release artifacts and make them available locally for validation.
create release prepare --version 2.3.0 --dev-version 2.4.0
– The ‘publish’ goal get a previous prepared release and publish the artifacts to respective repositories.
create release publish --version 2.3.0
Creating minor/patch releases from branches
In the case of creating minor/patch releases from a branch, one will need to modify the release script so that it
perform a checkout of the given branch
after cloning the Elyra repository:
Update the checkout_code
function in the create-release script and add the following at the end of that function:
check_run(['git', 'checkout', '<BRANCH NAME>'], cwd=config.source_dir)
check_run(['git', 'status'], cwd=config.source_dir)
Preparing Elyra release
Generate the release changelog
create release prepare-changelog --version 2.3.0
The updated changelog will then be available at
./build/release/elyra
as a git commitThe release manager should make any necessary adjustments and/or updates before ‘pushing the changelog commit’.
Note that the release manage could also push the change log as a new pull request to gather inputs from the community.
Prepare the release artifacts
create-release.py prepare --version 2.3.0 --dev-version 2.4.0 [--rc 0][--beta 0]
The artifacts for the new release will then be available at
./build/release/
The Elyra folder is the main release
The other folders, are the individual extensions packaged as standalone packages
elyra
elyra-code-snippet-extension
elyra-code-viewer-extension
elyra-pipeline-editor-extension
elyra-python-editor-extension
elyra-r-editor-extension
elyra-scala-editor-extension
Test the release
Run multiple scenarios, to make sure each extension is working ok
Run the covid-notebook scenario
Run the NOAA sample
Publish the release
create-release.py publish --version 2.3.0 [--rc 0] [--beta 0]
Build and publish container images based on release tag
git pull --rebase
git checkout tags/v2.3.0
make container-images publish-container-images
Merge changes for conda-forge
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-server-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-code-snippet-extension-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-code-viewer-extension-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-pipeline-editor-extension-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-python-editor-extension-feedstock/pulls
https://github.com/conda-forge/elyra-r-editor-extension-feedstock/pulls
Publish the release [notes]
To raise awerness for new releases, their new features and bug fixes we are also publishing them on GitHub along with release notes. As shown in this release example, release notes are divided into multiple parts: quick links, new feature highlights, changelog (separated by new features, bug fixes, and other), and contributors.
The quicklinks include version specific references to the changelog in the documentation, the documentation itself, the installation documentation topic, and getting help topic. With the exception of the documentation link, the other links are meant to be shortcuts to topics that a user would most likely want to access.
To create the release [notes]:
Review the labels for all closed PRs that are associated with the release. Make sure new features are tagged with
kind:enhancement
and bugs withkind:bug
.Add the release notes skeleton to the top of the document and customize it.
Add descriptive summaries for each release highlight (features users should be aware of), including links to the relevant documentation.
The contributor list and new contributor list is automatically generated by GitHub.
Request a release notes review once the draft is complete and publish the release.